A tour of our plot Coussolline, with her two baby garden-forests

Table of Content

• Why an agroforestry project?
• The permaculture project on Coussolline
• Focus on our two baby garden-forests on Coussolline
• Did you like this article?
• How to follow my explorations?

Why an agroforestry project?

As I was working on Clémentine and Coussolline, the two farm plots that adopted us last year to take care of them, I realized that these pieces of land were helping me to better understand my work as a writer.

For the past 18 years, I’ve been writing a blog with seemingly eclectic content. It began as a travel diary, focused on spirituality, ventured into nutrition and construction… It told the story of life on this planet, from different angles, through my own path and eyes.

I’ve always had trouble explaining my work, but this time I realized that thanks to these two small portions of the Earth, I could better understand it and explain it.

I had finally found the origin, the source: the Earth, the soil, the forest. In a way, everything flows from there, all the important questions and answers, all the interconnected themes that fascinate me so much.

But I explain this in a little more detail, and with different words and gestures, in this first video introducing my blog Elegant Experiments and our agroforestry project :)

The permaculture project on Coussolline

Last September, after a few months of experimentation, I was ready to introduce you to Coussolline and her shaggy haircut.

I shot the video, edited it, put it online, and just as I was about to send it to you, I stumbled and fell back into one of the abysses of existence. Those abysses of time where you lose track of your own life, tossed from one apparent emergency to another, dismayed by chronic symptoms; only to emerge, dazed, to find that time has flown!

So, a few months later, here’s a video to help you get to know Coussolline better, and understand the project we’re working on.

In a nutshell, it’s a kind of agroforestry micro-farm, where we explore how much we can produce on 2000 m², starting from a meadow, without machinery, aiming for the greatest possible synergy with living things.

Focus on our two baby garden-forests on Coussolline

These first two videos are a good introduction, but then I had to get into the nitty-gritty details. This third video, shot 10 days ago, shows you the plants, how they are organized spatially, and reveals the ideas and philosophies behind the details.

You will see baby garden-forests, living architecture, orchard-veggies growing beds. There are successes and failures: applied research has begun!

I hope you’ve enjoyed it all :)

Cheers ;)

Lénaïc

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